End multiple sclerosis

This painting was done for an article in a multiple sclerosis magazine written with my supervisor. The magazine was dealing with stem cell therapy for treating multiple sclerosis and I was asked to make a painting to capture the idea of stem cell repair. A group of scientists stand in the foreground with a blueprint and a construction sign and equipment indicates that they are busy working. In the center of the picture is a MRI-brain scan of a brain with lesions (the white holes in the grey part of the scan). These lesions need to be repaired, and stem cells may be a way to do it.

The composition of the painting was carefully planned. The orange signs captures your eye first (the orange is contrasted by the blue sky; orange and blue are complementary colours) and allows your eye to move into the brain scan, and then down to the scientists. The corner of the sign overlaps with the scan, as does the corner of the blueprint. Three orange cones on the ground convey the perspective of the ground. Light comes down from the top right, which contrasts the general flow of the brush strokes and eye-movement.

I left a lot of space around the painting because the editors were going to crop the magazine layout. The free magazine can be found at http://www.msif.org/en/resources/msif_resources/msif_publications/ms_in_focus/index.html

 End multiple sclerosis, watercolour 11 x 15" cold press, 2008 (No. 1917)